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Fished that river coming out of Hekla a long long time ago. The locals were spinfishing it back then. After watching one man catch a couple of real whoppers, I ended up lashing a couple of Brooks Blonde bucktails together in tandem, threading up an Orvis Nine by Nine early graphite and finally getting just one fish. But it was a 6-pounder.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Iceland, still the safe home of some of the world’s best Atlantic salmon rivers and runs of fish, there has been an only too familiar disaster – a farmed fish escape. In today’s Guardian –
Fished that river coming out of Hekla a long long time ago. The locals were spinfishing it back then. After watching one man catch a couple of real whoppers, I ended up lashing a couple of Brooks Blonde bucktails together in tandem, threading up an Orvis Nine by Nine early graphite and finally getting just one fish. But it was a 6-pounder.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Iceland, still the safe home of some of the world’s best Atlantic salmon rivers and runs of fish, there has been an only too familiar disaster – a farmed fish escape. In today’s Guardian –
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/30/thousands-of-salmon-escaped-an-icelandic-fish-farm-the-impact-could-be-deadly